Bob Berkowitz, former White House Correspondent for CNN and reporter for ABC news recently made a case for the power of empathy in a Huffington Post article. Here’s an excerpt:
Barbara Walters tells this story about Roone Arledge, who was my boss when I was a correspondent at ABC News. If she invited him to a dinner party, he would ask for the bio of everyone who was going to be there. Maybe Arledge was socially anxious and looking for some way to make small talk, but I don’t believe that was the case. I think he wanted to have a little background information of where they were coming from to communicate with them better and make it a more fruitful evening.
It’s nice to see a journalist recognize that empathy is and has been part of the fabric of American culture long before President Obama stepped into the limelight.
